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PAPER-HANGERS' PASTE.
To make paper-hangers' paste, beat up four pounds of good, white, wheat flour
(well sifted previously) in sufficient cold water to form a stiff batter. Beat
it well in order to take out all lumps, and then add enough cold water to make
the mixture of the consistency of pudding batter. To this add about two ounces
of well-pounded alum. Pour gently and quickly over the batter boiling water,
stirring rapidly at the same time, and when it is seen to lose the white color
of the flour, it is cooked and ready. Do not use it, however, while hot, but
allow it to cool. Pour about a pint of cold water over the top to prevent a skin
from forming. Before using, the paste should be thinned by the addition of cold
water.
TO WASH COLORED GARMENTS.
Delicately colored socks and stockings are apt to fade in washing. If they are
soaked for a night in a pail of tepid water containing a half pint of
turpentine, then wrung out and dried, the colors will "set", and they can
afterwards be washed without fading.
For calicoes that fade, put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead into a pailful of
water and soak the garment fifteen minutes before washing.
THE MARKING SYSTEM.
Mark all your own personal wardrobe which has to be washed. If this were
invariably done, a great deal of property would be saved and a great deal of
trouble would be spared. For the sake of saving trouble to others, if for no
other reason, all of one's handkerchiefs, collars and underclothing should be
plainly and permanently marked. A bottle of indelible ink is cheap, a clean pen
still cheaper, and a bright, sunny day or a hot flat-iron will complete the
business. Always keep on hand a stick of linen tape, written over its whole
length with your name, or the names of your family, ready to be cut off and
sewed on to stockings and such other articles as do not afford a good surface on
which to mark.
Then there are the paper patterns, of which every mother has a store. On the
outside of each, as it is tied up, the name of the pattern should be plainly
written. There are the rolls of pieces, which may contain a good deal not
apparent from the outside. All these hidden mysteries should be indicated. The
winter things, which are wrapped up and put away for summer, and the summer
things, which are wrapped up and put away for the winter, should all be in
labeled packages, and every packing trunk should have on its lid a complete list
of its contents.
--Congregationalist.
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